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Obama hails 60th Senate vote for health care

WASHINGTON – Jubilant Democrats locked in Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson as the 60th and decisive vote for historic health care legislation Saturday, putting President Barack Obama’s signature issue firmly on a path for Christmas Eve passage.

At the White House, Obama swiftly welcomed the breakthrough, saying, “After a nearly century-long struggle, we are on the cusp of making health care reform a reality in the United States of America.”

In the Capitol, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid smiled broadly when asked if Nelson’s decision gave him the 60-vote majority necessary to overcome solid Republican opposition. “Seems that way,” he said. The Nevada Democrat agreed to a series of concessions on abortion and other issues demanded by Nelson in daylong talks on Friday, then informed Obama of the agreement in a late night phone call as the president flew home from climate talks in Copenhagen.

The Congressional Budget Office said the Senate bill would extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans who lack it. It also imposes new regulations to curb abuses of the insurance industry, and the president noted one last-minute addition would impose penalties on companies that “arbitrarily jack up prices” in advance of the legislation taking effect.

CBO analysts also said the legislation would cut federal deficits by $132 billion over 10 years and possibly much more in the subsequent decade.

The developments unfolded on a day of improbables — a snowstorm enveloped the Capitol, creating whiteout conditions outside; while inside senators staged dueling news conferences as if their presence on the Saturday before Christmas was the rule rather than the rarest of exceptions.

At its core, the legislation would create a new insurance exchange where consumers could shop for affordable coverage that complied with new federal guidelines. Most Americans would be required to purchase insurance, with federal subsidies available to help defray the cost for lower and middle income individuals and families.

In a concession to Nelson and other moderates, the bill lacks a government-run insurance option of the type that House Democrats inserted into theirs. In a final defeat for liberals, a proposed Medicare expansion was also jettisoned in the past several days as Reid and the White House maneuvered for 60 votes.

Outnumbered Republicans unleashed a new series of attacks against the legislation and vowed to delay its passage as long as possible. The next — and most critical — test vote was set for about 1 a.m. Monday.

To secure passage, Democrats will need to show 60 votes on two additional occasions, and in the meantime, Reid made sure Republicans would have no additional chances to seek changes to the measure.

“This bill is a legislative train wreck of historic proportions,” the party’s leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said at a news conference. He pointed to cuts to Medicare that CBO said totaled more than $470 billion over a decade, with reductions in planned payments to home health care agencies and hospices. He also said the bill includes “massive tax increases” at a time of double-digit unemployment.

Republicans also noted that CBO concluded that under the bill, “federal outlays for health care would increase during the 2010-2019 period, as would the federal budgetary commitment to health care.”

True to their word, Republicans objected when Reid sought permission for Nelson to announce his decision in a speech on the Senate floor, then insisted clerks read aloud 383 pages of last-minute changes the majority leader unveiled.

Many of Reid’s revisions were designed to secure the 60 votes needed to steer the bill past the GOP filibuster.

Those drafted at Nelson’s behest drew the most attention, and included further restrictions on abortion coverage in policies sold inside the exchanges.

States would be permitted to ban insurance coverage of abortions in policies sold in the exchange, except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in jeopardy. In states where such coverage is permitted, consumers must notify their insurance company they want it, and pay for it separately.

The Nebraskan also won increased federal funds to cover his state’s cost of covering an expanded Medicaid population at a cost that one Democratic official put at $45 million over a decade, and took credit for easing the bill’s impact as well as other, smaller changes.

When he finally announced his decision, Nelson did so at a news conference in a Capitol corridor, rather than from his Senate desk as Democrats had preferred. Noting the bruising negotiations over abortion, he said, “I know this is hard for some of my colleagues to accept and I appreciate their right to disagree. But I would not have voted for this bill without these provisions.”

Senators who support abortion rights accepted the changes reluctantly. But conservative Republicans and the National Right to Life Committee criticized them as a step backward from the equivalent part of the House bill, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also opposed them.

Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who pushed through the restrictions in the House-passed bill, also rejected Nelson’s deal. He called it “not acceptable” because it “would allow the federal government to subsidize insurance policies with abortion coverage.” He said he intends to keep working to find a solution that would allow him to ultimately vote for the health care bill.

Nelson, Nebraska’s former state insurance commissioner, wasn’t the only squeaky senatorial wheel within the 60-member Democratic caucus.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., claimed credit for a last-minute, $10 billion increase in funding for community health centers nationwide, which he said would create new or expanded facilities in 10,000 areas and provide primary care for 25 million more Americans.

Sanders made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor earlier in the week on behalf of a doomed proposal for government-run health care. In an interview, he said he only agreed to vote for the legislation on Friday, when Reid told him additional billions for the health centers would be included.

Another provision in Reid’s changes provides additional federal funding for hospitals in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming and the Dakotas, although no cost estimate was available.

The House passed its version of the bill in November, and final compromise talks are expected to begin after a brief break for the holidays. Numerous issues must be resolved — including the role of government in the new insurance market and abortion restrictions. But Democrats have made a point all year of compromising on difficult issues in the name of the most far-reaching changes in the nation’s health care system in generations, and hope to have a bill for Obama to sign before next month’s State of the Union address to Congress.

In place of a government-run insurance option, the estimated 30 million Americans purchasing coverage through new insurance exchanges would have the option of signing up for national plans overseen by the same office that manages health coverage for federal employees and members of Congress. Those plans would be privately owned, but operated on a nonprofit basis, as many Blue Cross Blue Shield plans are now.

Insurance companies would be barred immediately from denying coverage to children because of a pre-existing health condition. The prohibition on denial of coverage for adults would not take effect in the Senate bill until 2014, a disappointment for consumer advocates.

Among the changes Reid incorporated was dropping a proposed tax on cosmetic surgical procedures, including Botox injections. Instead, Senate Democrats are proposing a 10 percent sales tax on tanning salons, to be paid by the person soaking up the rays. The Food and Drug Administration says ultraviolet radiation from tanning can increase the risk of skin cancer.

The revised bill also calls for a .9 percent increase in the Medicare payroll tax on incomes over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples. Reid’s earlier bill had a smaller hike, .5 percent.

The bill also taxes high-cost insurance plans as part of a plan to put downward pressure on health care use.

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“That’s one small step for Man. And One Giant Leap for Humanity!”

While Right wingers, bigots, racists, and ‘Know Nothin’s’ ~ as well as knuckle dragging ‘Tea Party’ Klans ~ spent months on end spewing their HATRED and FILTH at President Obama, ‘Our Government’, as well as those that TRULY LOVE our nation …. America tonight stands at the threshold of giving Birth to a much Kinder, Humane, and Responsible Society as we now will move toward a ‘More Perfect Union’. With the Passage this Christmas Eve of Legislation to REFORM Health Care, more Citizens will be added to the health Care roles; as well as no longer can Americans be EXCLUDED from Coverage due to a pre-existing condition!

Is this Legislation perfect: Absolutely not! But its a Beginning … a CHANGE from the status quo whereby health care costs were dragging this country down the path of financial ruin. Sure, I’m very upset a ‘Public Option’ is not included. Sure, I’m very angry that the insurance industry STILL will make out like Phat Kats. But damn it: we’ve at least seen the rise of a ‘New Morning in America’ whereby MORE Americans will be ENTITLED to Life, Liberty, and the PURSUIT of Happiness & Good AFFORDABLE Health Care!

“CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!”

WELCOME, AMERICA, TO THE TWENTY-first CENTURY!

Sorry, ‘Cavemen Republicans’

Obama rode the wave of CHANGE into the White House. Congressional Democrats rode high with a Majority that seemed at the time to be ‘Republican Proof’. Yet here we are 1 year since Obama’s Inauguration with Obama’s ‘Favorable Rating’ heading South; Democrats are facing stiff competition in the 2010 Mid-Term Elections; and worse of all …. Health Care Reform is now faced by not being truly HEALTH CARE Legislation at all, at least not in the substantive form Liberals and Progressives envisioned.

And what’s sad about all this: all these headaches were truly UNNECESSARY!!

First of all, why-oh-why did Democrats believe that non-partisanship was possible with a Party (Republicans) that had absolutely no intention making Obama’s First Term a success. NONE! Too, Right wing radio has DAILY hammered Obama unmercifully with “He’s a Socialist” or “Obama isn’t a REAL American” (Birthers) or “For the first time in my life I’m scared of our President” (racists). And although I fully hold to the ‘Right of Expression’ in this country, throughout this past year the Democrats have failed to Answer the scandalous charges from the Right …. in fact, by even recognizing these knuckle draggers they (Democrats) legitimized these clowns way beyond their worth, power (minimal) or ideas (and the lack thereof).

But ‘Joe Six Pac’ and Billy Bob ate it up, Dems!! And these numbnuts and ‘Tea Party Yahoos’ VOTE!!

Alll this playin’ ‘Nice-Nice’ with these ‘Death Eaters’ have resulted in even the world’s greatest PUSSY grabbing you kats by the nuts! Imagine: here we have Democrats held captive by that jelly fish, Joe Lieberman! Here again, giving that ’slime ball’ an homage well beyond his worth and power. Hell, Liberman is nothing but a whore for the Insurance Companies ~ as well as the majority of Congress-people on BOTH sides of the aisle share that dubious yet lucrative honor.

I’ll tell you what, President Obama: keep bending over backwards to these whorish and Narrow Minded Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats, and you might as well start packing ~ because you’ll be a ONE TERM PRESIDENT unless you govern as if these slugs didn’t exist! And Congress, the Democratic Led Congress: you kats best get a backbone and STAND on your Democratic Principles, because unless you find or regain your Democratic Souls …. you too will be seated in the ‘out of power party’ OUT-HOUSE come November 2010 rather than the cushy offices you now occupy!

Democrats should be ashamed of themselves to allow the ‘Party of No Ideas’ (Republicans) to run circles around them! Stand for SOMETHING, DEMOCRATS! It’s you kats that have the POWER the People intrusted you with. Quit being punks, wimps, and pussies when it comes to doing what is ‘right’ and doing the business “The People” elected you for.

Remember: the MASSES are grossly IGNORANT, PREJUDICED, and just plain DUMB. Why else can any sane human being explain the power of the Limbaughs & Hannitys of the world, hum?

Don’t Pass this sham of Health Care Legislation, Harry Reed! With no ‘Public Option’ or no Medicare feed-in …. this Legislation, as currently considered, is nothing but a Health Care -’ Slap on the hand’ Insurance Company bastard! If you kats can’t get America a TRUE REFORM BILL: crawl back to your pretty little offices and wait for the RED WAVE to sweep your tired asses out of Office next November!

Sorry ass Democrats!!

When will they ever get a backbone!!!

I could give a fat rat’s ass what Sport Figures, Entertainers, or even Politicians do with their Personal Life! As such, Tiger Woods alleged rather ACTIVE sex life OUTSIDE Marriage  is of no concern to me, okay! Again, I don’t WORSHIP these people (nor care) beyond their Craft or Professional Life!

Respect their TALENT : of course! But to somehow feel betrayed by these kats because they were involved in certain activities OUTSIDE the gridiron … or ball diamond …. or basketball court … or golf course is of no concern to me nor does it impact ‘My Life’ in the slightest! I neither condone nor reject their behavior, but simply Observe and note whether said Activity effects their Play or Craft! And that’s THAT!

Men are MEN! And in case some of you Puritans have forgotten: the MALE in MOST species are HUNTERS!! It’s in our DNA, baby! And when you add to that FACT young men that have more MONEY than god  ~ as in the case of Tiger Woods: hell, Tiger would truly be “other worldly” if he could reject ALL the SEX that’s in his face 24/7!!

Are you crazy!  : )

White women, Black women, Latina women, Asian women ~ don’t matter! MEN are HUNTERS!!   : )

Now of course, we live in a so-called “Civilized Society” where these wanton SEXUAL URGES are to be defeated. And I’m well aware that even RELIGION as pontificated on  by Christians, Jews, and Muslims preach against these primeval URGES of Men. But let’s be REAL:

It ain’t happening, baby!   : )

MEN are HUNTERS!!

See. This is why so many Marriages end up in failure, because BOTH Men & Women are brought up to believe in the fallacy of  “In Death~ and in death only ~  Do WE Part!” or “You are my ONE and ONLY!” nonsense; which is all well and good … so long as Women and Men understand that ‘MEN ARE HUNTERS by Nature’ ~ while WOMEN are ‘Gatherers’ (Nesters)  by Nature’! It’s in both our DNA!!

Am I saying that it is impossible to love and be with ONE WOMAN till ‘Death Do Ye Part’: NO! What I’m saying is …. that until BOTH men and women recognize certain biological FACTS of each, and be mindful of such ~ then both Men & Women will cling to these ridiculous Myths of  “He/She wants ONLY me” or “My Husband/Wife is loyal ONLY to me, and would NEVER stray!”

YADA, YADA, YADA!   : )

C’mon, Folks!

Tiger Wood’s greatest mistake was getting Married in the first place! It’s OBVIOUS Tiger wasn’t READY for Marriage (at least the Traditional Marriage). As I stated earlier ~ with Tiger’s Money, Fame, and Youth …. no way should he gotten Married in his 20s! And not only that, WE DON’T KNOW what his Married LIFE was really like, now do we! Maybe Tiger wasn’t having his sexual NEEDS satisfied or met by his wife, hum?

We just don’t KNOW!

I’ll continue to watch and respect Tiger Woods, the Professional Golfer. The Games GREATEST! But as to how many ‘other women’ Tiger boinked or whatever<g>  … I could give a fat rat’s ass! That’s between Tiger and his wife! But I do KNOW:

MEN are HUNTERS!! And this quality will remain in MEN as long as the species exist on earth!!

Period!!

This being my ‘Day Off Work’, I happened to catch President Obama’s LECTURE in receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. I was particularly interested in how he was going to handle his Acceptance of the award in light of his recent deployment of 30,000 U.S. Troops in Afghanistan. Never ~ NEVER ~ did I anticipate his not only acknowledging such controversy existed … but he rose to an incredible BRILLIANCE to frame the posit, IN OSLO, that sometimes WARS are ‘just’ for a later PEACE ~ a Long Lasting Peace.

Hell! Even Conservatives were impressed ~ and that’s saying  one hell of lot, okay!   : )

I’ve said since Day 1 when Obama made his run for the Presidency: “Barack Obama is the most BRILLIANT and ASTUTE man to ever seek the Office of President of the United States since John F. Kennedy!”

Its gotten nothing to do with Race, Ethnicity, Gender, or Politics! Sometimes there comes along an American that is MADE to be the Leader of the Free World! An Individual that was made for “The Times” of the Nation and her People!

Each-and-every time  THIS MAN, Barack Obama, opens his mouth ~ I can only “thank God” that I can witness this BRILLIANT and ACCOMPLISHED individual weave his magic. Just as I witnessed JFK ‘do his thing’ from Camelot and Beyond.

We’re ‘ALL’ very fortunate to have been a Witness during the ‘Era of Obama’!!

TODAY I wanted to run at my “High Place”. Normally I visit my High Place to Meditate or ponder some deep Issue in my Life, but today I just wanted to run along some winding path where the trees serve as giant observers … and the grass is never as green as when following a recent rain. And I must say, today’s run was enjoyable as well a Blessing; a Blessing for what happened as I neared the end of my run.

As I neared the parking lot at the end of my run, I noticed a man walking with his daughter near the park entrance. “How sweet”, I thought to myself as I watched this father sharing his TIME with his very young daughter ~ teaching and EXPOSING her to the wonders of Nature. And as I got closer I looked down at the child: powerful Blue Eyes she had, with her Blond Hair stuffed beneath a wool cap. Just as cute as she could be. But what startled me was …. she smiled at ‘ME’ in a way I had not experienced in quite some time. Her smile and eyes full of happiness was so FULL OF LOVE & TRUST, that I really just wanted to pick her up and hug her! A connection ~yes,  a POWERFUL connection ~ was made between us as if somehow she and I had met before in another Period of TIME or in another Place. All I know is this:

in the brief encounter between us, I felt a sense of Hope, Peace, and Joy sweep across my Soul. Feelings I had not felt in quite some TIME.

Damn near a Religious experience!!

Perhaps this is why the Christian Bible states that Jesus had said (and I paraphrase), ” The Kingdom of God must be first entered as a Child.”

Today, I fully understood the meaning of this.

Here’s a recent COMMENT to mine re the Republican’ts & Right wingers being a ‘One Trick Pony Circus Act’

T. Ruth said

November 20, 2009 at 11:57 am e

Perhaps the author would be better served to look at the results of President Obama’s policies than merely defend them because they exist.

Appears this author believes President Obama can take a dump on American values and the author will call it nourishment

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Ruth, Ruth.   : )

Health Care … which the ‘No Nothing Party’ (Republicans) object to? Hell, I’m totally supportive of EVERY American having access to affordable Health Care. But ‘I know – I know’: Greedy Republicans just can’t ween themselves  off that Big Tit of INSURANCE COMPANY MONEY to simply do what’s right for ‘ALL’ Americans, huh Ruth.

Domestic Policy … I’ve kinda enjoyed watching the Dow Jones Index CLIMB during the past 12 months! George W. Bush dam near had me living under an ‘overpass’ with his and Republican Economic ‘Trickle Down’ and TAX CUTS for the Phat Kats strategy. See, Ruth, Obama is all about ACCOUNTABILITY, okay! This is why his Campaign Promise on Health Care ~ he’s doing it (and has done it for children); or take Rigorous Standards on Wall Street ~ he’s done it; or Transparency in Government ~ he’s doing it; Improving Trade ~ we’ve had a SURPLUS this year; etc., etc., etc.

Foreign Policy …. I’ve stopped work on my basement bomb bunker since we now have a president named Obama rather than Bush, okay! Too, since Obama became President, I now can visit a lot more countries without fear of being spit on!!

You know something,  my fine little ‘Wrong Thinking Friend’. My least favorite bird is the Parrot. So when I hear or see kats like YOU mimic the same old tired lines such as  ” ….President Obama can take a dump on American values and the author will call it nourishment” Ruth, Ruth.   : )

American VALUES????   : )

Like those expressed by Sarah Palin??    : )

Rush Limbaugh?    : )

Glenn Beck!!    : )

Bill O’Reilly??

Hell! I’m so sorry, Ruth, that people like Barack Obama aren’t working in Bill O’Reilly’s kitchen like back in ‘the good ol’ days’, okay!    : )

And I’m truly sorry that a Latina has the AUDACITY to sit her brown ass on the U.S. Supreme Court, or that YOU PEOPLE (Racists) have to endure having a Black Woman as First Lady. But excuse this being the  Twenty-first Century, okay!!

After 200 YEARS of ‘White Absolute Rule’: Things tend to CHANGE a bit!   : )

I kinda feel sorry for folks like you, Ruth. See, you folks allow the Rush Fatbaughs, the Hannitys, the Becks, the Savages, and lawd knows who else … to literally do your thinking for you! Now, I know that all this mindless gibberish in fact is designed to simply COVER your REAL objection to Obama ~ that being Obama is a Black Man: I KNOW this! That’s why each day while YOU PEOPLE (Right, Conservative, Republicans, Skin Heads and other assorted ‘knuckle draggers’) eat yourselves up in HATRED, IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE ….

I live each day with Joy & Pride as I observe this brilliant Brother ‘do his thing’!!

Now then. Go back and enjoy listening to Rush Fatbaugh!!

HATE it UP, baby!!

And …. Ohio State has “THE BEST DAMN BAND IN THE LAND!!!”

Obama could say that the sun rises in the East, and Republicans will say, “Hell NO! It rises in the West!”

Obama wins the Nobel Peace  Prize and according to Republicans, “It’s Obama’s fault that the committee selected him!”

Obama can say he’ll wait to make a deliberate DECISION regarding Troop Levels in Afghanistan, yet the Republicans will declare: “Obama can’t make a decision on Afghanistan because he’s too timid and indecisive!”

Obama can work tirelessly to STIMULATE the Economy, yet according to Republicans …. “Obama is a failure because he’s destroying America’s Capitalistic System!”

Obama, according to Republicans, can’t bow to International Royalty; Obama can’t make Health Care affordable and/or Accessable to Americans; Obama is a Manchurian Candidate; Obama is a closet Muslim; and on-and on- etc.

According to Republicans: Obama can do no right!

Now Obama wants to hold Terrorist Trials  on American Soil and under American Jurisprudence. Here’s your TYPICAL Republican rant”

Pathetic!

Sick.

Moronic.

Long ago I read a book by Hugh Prather entitled “there is a place where you are not alone”. Prather had worked as a counselor and teacher in the fields of alcoholism, divorce, suicide, rape, battered women, child abuse, and human relationships. In the book he refers to himself as a “co-helper” because he believed that within a helping relationship the exchange is always equal and so there is no cost to anyone. In the book Prather exposes this side of his life and of the spiritual experiences that led him to a new perception of how to be truly helpful to others.

How to be truly helpful to others.

My ‘Life Experiences’ have taught that … it’s far easier to be  helpful to others than to be first helpful to one’s self. After all, by nature I’m a generous person both with my TIME and Resources. Too, when asked, I’m very generous with whatever advise I can offer to help ‘others’ resolve whatever problem they happen to be dealing with. So for me, ‘helping others’ has never been an Issue in my Life. Ahh, but ‘helping myself’ remains an Issue that STILL confronts. For you see, deep down in my Soul I KNOW what God asks from me … and for all these many years I have refused to accept His Challenge. Why: because confronting (and accepting) what I KNOW deep inside my heart what must be done … is almost frightening to the point of paralysis! Yet it remains TRUE that only in each of our hearts do we KNOW what must be done to Answer the ‘Call’ of the Spirit ~ our TRUE Selves.

In most of the major religions this ‘Call’ is called Faith, isn’t it. Jews, Muslims, and Christians are asked to ‘Believe’ in God and Follow His Directions & Dictates. Now then, from a Group standpoint this is very easy to do. In most cases ‘just showing up’ on Sundays or Fridays to be ’seen by others’ expresses one’s outwardly Faith. What separates, however, the truly Faithful from the hypocrite is …. this solitary Answering of the ‘Call’ which God has inscribed on each individual heart. This ‘God Given Duty’, say, to fulfill his/her Mission in this Lifetime. Thus therein lies the True Struggle. Therein lies the Place where once we commit to ‘Answer the Call’ a deep LONELINESS can set in.

You see. This ‘Call’ I speak of for some can be seen as damn near impossible, yet for others as no big deal. For example, I’ve struggled with smoking most of my life; yet for many others this task is either a non-issue or one that they accomplished quite easily. Or, God my require a person to simply organize their cabinets or their home, which to some may be a Herculean task … while to others “no big deal”.  So you see, a ‘Religious Experience’ is a most Personal and Private aspect of our Lives. So Personal, in fact, that often we have to Struggle with the ‘Call’ all by ourselves.  Hence,  “There Is A Place Where We Are Not Alone”.

For example: attempt to tear from your LIFE a nagging habit ~ say cigarettes ~ and your heart will bleed! Same for alcohol, gambling, weed, negative relationship, dealing with an abusive Boss, whatever: attempt to tear those things from your heart … and your heart will BLEED.

Oh, yes it will!!

But BLEED it must if one is to obey this ‘Higher Calling’ ~ this Challenge ~  of fulfilling one’s existence on this earth. For you see:  if this ‘Higher Calling’ is not taken up and committed to, then we’re plagued with the never-ending question in our own Minds,  “Does God really exist?” And believe me, we can play this Game (?) throughout  our entire life!!

Hugh Prather writes:

“For this was not the first time in my life I had looked God in the face {his recognition of a particular Spiritual Experience}. But each time before I had walked away and said, ‘He is an illusion.’ Maybe He is, but I no longer care about that. There isn’t time for uncertainty. For me He exists. That is the only thing I know. And that is the reason I live.”

I am ALWAYS hopeful whenever I see the strife and bitter divide between the Races of Mankind, because the arch of Humanity is ALWAYS upward!

Always.

During the bitter Period of South Africa’s Apartheid Rule, a Black Political Party called the African National Congress (the  ANC ) was brought into existence. This Party included many of the leading Black South African ‘Freedom Fighters’, Intellectuals, and Political Operatives. Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela to name just a few.

Anyway, the Anthem of the ANC would later become part of the National Anthem of South Africa. Think about it: the Anthem of a Party (ANC) thought to be Terrorists, Trouble Makers, the Enemy of the State by White South Africans under Apartheid Rule …. would one day become a vital part of all the South African political power structure!!

And to think. That one day Whites would Sing with Pride the ANC Anthem as now part of their own!! Amazing.